hardarso@cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) (01/17/91)
A previous posting made me think of this question: Is there a way to get from the Internet to the X.25 networks of Europe? When I lived in Iceland I used to access a mailbox service in the UK called 1-2-1. I accessed it by calling the local X.25 telephone number in Reykjavik and then entering the so called NUI number of 1-2-1, which was a ten or twelve digit number. I really miss that service since I had several contacts there which I can no longer communicate with. It seems that Telenet and Tymnet are both connected to the European X.25 networks (I know this because I could Access BIX from Iceland over the local X.25 via Tymnet) but this does not work the other way around since a private user cannot get an account on Tymnet or Telenet, or so I was led to believe. In Iceland you could get an X.25 account from the telephone company which then billed you for your data transmissions along with your telephone bill. Am I to believe that Americans are behind in the X.25 business or do they have a different solution to the data transmission problems of individuals? Kari Hardarson 217 Jackson Circle Chapel Hill, NC 27514